A careful selection of creative events, exhibitions and interesting meetups in The Netherlands. Recommendations? Submit an event
May
10
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Jan
19
Cube design museum
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Kerkrade
In collaboration with the world's largest design museum, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York, Cube design museum presents NATURE.
Sep
7
Feb
2
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam
The exhibition ‘Colorful Japan’ shows 226 Japanese posters in the Gallery of Honor of the Stedelijk Museum – from floor to ceiling.
8
Design Museum
Den Bosch
Design Museum Den Bosch presents the first major retrospective of design of the Third Reich.
14
The Kunsthal
Rotterdam
Joost Swarte celebrates his fiftieth anniversary as an illustrator, designer and architect with an exhibition at the Kunsthal Rotterdam.
28
Mar
22
Tribute to Wim Crouwel (1928-2019) with a selection of his typographic oeuvre.
Oct
12
17
Museum Voorlinden
Wassenaar
A six-decade survey exhibition featuring forty pivotal works from the Glenstone Collection, The Easton Foundation and Voorlinden.
18
Foam
The exhibition Materia Impura summarises ten years of research, combining Vitturi’s earlier projects.
Dec
16
Stadsarchief Amsterdam
A unique exhibition about photography and film in the 1920s and 1930s.
15
Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen
Vijfhuizen
An interdisciplinary research project that is using artistic methods in studying the social phenomenon of clubbing.
Cabeza de Baca’s immersive installation explores the fluidity of movement.
Nov
1
Galerie Bart
Nijmegen
A selection by Galerie Bart of the best graduates from Dutch art academies.
Melkweg Expo
In collaboration with EIZO, Kiekie and Melkweg Expo join forces for the second edition of the young talent development program FOLLOW.
Marres
Maastricht
Inspired by the novel The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, Norwegian composer Espen Sommer Eide makes an eponymous spatial music album for Marres.
Various locations
Experience the open-air exhibition "DISRUPT!" from the Amsterdam waters and visit one of the many light art activities.
3
Bureau Europa
An exhibition that puts the people/landscape and culture/nature relationships into sharp focus.
9
De Pont
Tilburg
De Pont museum is presenting the work of three generations of German artists who joined the centre’s artist-in-residence program in the past decades.
29
Billytown
The Hague
Two new exhibitions at Billytown during Hoogtij #59.
30
Mini Galerie
A ‘mini’ solo exhibition by Danish artist Line Busch.
Van Abbemuseum
Eindhoven
For Positions #5, the Van Abbemuseum includes new and recent work by five artists living and working in the Netherlands.
6
13
Van Eyck Academie
Jan van Eyck project agency Mirror will exhibit and reflect on the outcomes of research venture Living Like an Artist.
Huis Marseille
Fashion photography from the Studio to Exotic Lands (1900–1969)
Newwerktheater
Unfair presents a special biennial fundraiser auction with work from an exclusive selection of around 50 international and established artists.
LAB 111
LIMA presents new work from Mark IJzerman, Sébastien Robert, Zeno van den Broek and Nan Wang
11
An exhibition that presents intriguing and challenging fashion related photography projects created by a new generation of visual artists.
20
Haarlem
GOLF festival is a three-day festival with performances, installations and lectures about the interaction between image and sound.
The fair to discover young art.
HAKA building
OBJECT is the anual fair for contemporary design in the characteristic HAKA building in Rotterdam.
21
23
The 20th edition of Sonic Acts takes its cue from inspiring artistic research with a special emphasis on experimentation and innovation.
24
25
Pakhuis de Zwijger
FITC returns to Amsterdam to host their groundbreaking design and tech event on the future of innovation, design and all the cool shit in between.
Aug
The Stedelijk Museum pays an unusual tribute to an icon of documentary photography, the Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen (The Hague, 1942).
Apr
Westergas
Unfair collaborates, curates and promotes the brightest contemporary artists of today and tomorrow.
The World Press Photo Festival showcases the best visual journalism and storytelling with a program of presentations, meetups, and workshops.